Which Statement Describes A Characteristic Of The Traceroute Utility?

Which statement describes a characteristic of the traceroute utility?

• The traceroute utility sends the four Echo requests.
• The ICMP source quench message is used by the traceroute utility.
• The routes in the path from the source to a destination host are determined by the traceroute utility.
• The host connected is determined with the help of it. 

Answer: The utility forms the hops list and the routes in the path from the source to a destination host are determined by the traceroute utility as well.

What is a traceroute?

The utility determines the route which acts as the specified gateway for each hop with the help of the computer from the user PC or source to the destination PC. The time taken by the hops is also estimated by it. The traceroute is effective in determining the internet problem and provides thorough information on the internet as well. The ping is the competitive utility against the traceroute which checks the availability of the host in the network.

The operating systems which are involved in the traceroute are the Windows-based operating system and the UNIX-based as well or maybe it is a part of the protocol as a TCP/IP package. You can download the utility on your computer from many of the sites which offer them for free of cost.

Working of the traceroute

When the command of the traceroute enter in the prompt, then the utility provokes the package dispatch process with the help of ICMP protocol and the packet has the time limit value or TTL which is formed by increasing the first router that receives the packets and returns the message of the exceed time.it can help the router to find the time limit of the hop for the router.

The time limit will increase and this time the packet will receive at the second router, which returns the exceeded message, and so on. The traceroute tells the time taken by the packet as well as the destination. When the packet is received the unreachable message comes back which tells the time limit of the last hop. With the progress of the utility, it can display the records hop by hop. the measurement limit for each hop is three and when the asterisk sign displays it means the limit is exceeded.

The traceroute in the windows operating system is described in the following:

• Click on the START.
• Tap on programs.
• Click the MS-DOS Prompt.
• open the C: WINDOWS prompt.
• Enter tracert http://www.xyz.com or any domain name which is given to the destination PC. the numeric IP address is also entered because they have some importance.